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the authority of "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," or of the Act now in recital, or by the Superintendent of any Province, under or in pursuance of any power delegated to him under any of the powers of delegation contained in "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," aforesaid. And whereas by the sixth section of "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," aforesaid, it is enacted that Orders in Council, and all regulations made by the Governor under the authority of either of the Acts aforesaid, shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette, and all such Orders in Council and regulations shall take effect from and after such day, being a day subsequent to the first publication thereof in such Gazette, as shall be prescribed in that behalf by the Governor in such orders and regulations respectively, and not before. And that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall deem it expedient so to do, to direct that all Orders in Council and regulations so made by him, under the authority of either of the Acts aforesaid, shall be published in any one or more of the Government Gazettes of the Provinces within the Colony, as well as in the New Zealand Gazette, as aforesaid, but the publication thereof in any Provincial Government Gazette shall not be necessary, nor shall the omission of such publication in any Provincial Gazette invalidate any such order or regulations. And whereas William Rolleston, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers to him delegated by the Governor in that behalf, did, by proclamation, dated the tenth day of June last, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twelfth day of June last, proclaim and declare all that portion of the Province of Canterbury in the said proclamation particularly described to be an infected district within the meaning of the said Acts; and did, by the same proclamation, make the regulations therein contained for the destruction of diseased cattle within the said infected district, and for preventing the further spread of disease. And whereas it is expedient that the said regulations should be altered and varied in certain respects :

Now, therefore, his Excellency the Governor, in exercise and in pursuance of all powers and authorities vested in him in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order that the said regulations shall be altered and varied in manner hereinafter appearing :—

Instead of the penalty of fifty pounds in the third, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, and sixteenth of the said regulations respectively mentioned, any person offending against the provisions of the said Regulations in any of the cases therein respectively mentioned, and for offence against which a penalty of fifty pounds is by the said regulations declared to be imposed, shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds and not being less than five pounds.

The ninth of the said regulations shall be

read as if there had been omitted therefrom the words "may be taken before two Justices of the Peace and."

And in further pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him as aforesaid, his Excellency the Governor, by and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby further order that this present Order in Council shall be published in the Government Gazette of the Province of Canterbury, and that the said regulations, as altered and varied hereby, shall take effect from and after the twenty-fourth day of August, 1868.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the Twelfth day of August, 1868.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fourth section of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that the Governor may, by any Order in Council, from time to time annul, make void, or alter, and make anew, any Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations, made and published by the Governor, under the authority of "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," or of the Act now in recital, or by the Superintendent of any Province, under or in pursuance of any power delegated to him under any of the powers of delegation contained in "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," aforesaid. And whereas by the sixth section of "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," aforesaid, it is enacted that Orders in Council, and all regulations made by the Governor under the authority of either of the Acts aforesaid, shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette, and all such orders in Council and regulations shall take effect from and after such day, being a day subsequent to the first publication thereof in such Gazette as shall be prescribed in that behalf by the Governor in such orders and regulations respectively, and not before. And that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall deem it expedient so to do, to direct that all Orders in Council and regulations so made by him, under the authority of either of the Acts aforesaid, shall be published in any one or more of the Government Gazettes of the Provinces within the Colony, as well as in the New Zealand Gazette as aforesaid, but the publication thereof in any Provincial Government Gazette shall not be necessary, nor shall the omission of such publication in any Provincial Gazette invalidate any such order or regulations. And whereas William Rolleston, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers to him delegated by the Governor in that behalf,